We try to be driven by what’s a good story, what’s truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

Meaning of the quote

When actors like Laura Innes create stories for movies and TV, they focus on three main things. First, they want to tell a story that is interesting and engaging to the audience. Second, they want the story to be honest and true to life. Finally, they want to create a story that keeps the audience curious and excited about what will happen next. Good stories need to be both entertaining and truthful to really capture people's attention.

About Laura Innes

Laura Innes is a talented American actress and TV director, best known for her starring role as Kerry Weaver in the hit medical drama ER. She has also received Emmy nominations for her directing work on The West Wing and appeared in other popular shows like The Event and How to Get Away with Murder.

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I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she’s gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.

Laura Innes

American actress

It was sort of that in-between area when people don’t talk about their personal lives. That’s the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren’t for the Lopez character sort of outing her.

Laura Innes

American actress

The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It’s a cycle.

Laura Innes

American actress

Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they’re gay or lesbian.

Laura Innes

American actress

I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

Laura Innes

American actress

But I’m not objective when I’m acting.

Laura Innes

American actress

And it’s sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it’s very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There’s very little about the personal lives of the characters.

Laura Innes

American actress

We try to be driven by what’s a good story, what’s truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

Laura Innes

American actress

We’ve been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.

Laura Innes

American actress

I’m straight and I have a lot of gay friends.

Laura Innes

American actress

The story line was done in a way that’s organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that’s authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.

Laura Innes

American actress